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'On the Introduction and Progressive Increase of Screw Propulsion in Her Majesty's Navy'.
Pamphlet: 'On the Introduction and Progressive Increase of Screw Propulsion in Her Majesty's Navy', Admiralty, London, 1850
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Object Details
ID:
MLN/199/3
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Creator:
Milne, Alexander
Date made:
1850-01-01 - ?; 1850
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:
Manuscript
'Arctic Expedition. Further papers and correspondence in continuation of Parliamentary Papers of 1875'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/1)
Admiralty pamphlet. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/2)
'On the Introduction and Progressive Increase of Screw Propulsion in Her Majesty's Navy'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/3)
Pamphlets regarding disease outbreaks at sea. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/4&6)
'Reports of the Admiralty Torpedo Committee with reference to the Defence of Ships against Offensive Torpedoes'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/5)
'Report on the Crime and Punishment in the Navy, in the year 1863'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/7)
'Report on the Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/8)
'South Africa. Despatches from the Commodore at the Cape of Good Hope...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/9)
'Further Correspondence...Naval Brigades...Zululand.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/10)
'A Memoir of the Hydrographical Department of the Admiralty'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/11)
'Address by His Royal Highness the Prince Consort'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/12)
'On Some Recent Designs for Ships of War for the British Navy, armoured and unarmoured'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/13)
'On the Fighting Power of the Merchant Ship in Naval Warfare'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/14)
'On Coast Fog-Signals. A lecture delivered at the Royal United Service Institution'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/15)
'Bermuda Pocket Almanack'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/16)
'The Supply of British Seamen, Merchant Seamen. Report of the Assistant Secretary...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/17)
'On the American System of Turret Ships'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/18)
'Description of a View of the City of Sebastopol and the surrounding fortification'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/19)
'An Essay on Steam Tactics'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/20)
'The Canadian Almanac...1860'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/21)
'The Case of the Captains Royal Navy, Retired from Commanders'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/22)
'On the Value of Fortresses & Fortified Positions in Defensive Operations: An Essay'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/23)
'Naval Policy. A Speech delivered in the House of Commons, on the 21 March, 1867...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/24)
'The Naval Power of England. A Speech...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/25)
'Letters on Slavery on the South-East Coast of Africa (Zanzibar)'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/26)
Pamphlet: by Lt-Col Clarke, (see Captain Richards). (Manuscript) (MLN/199/27)
'An Account of the Observations Recently made by the Corporation of the Trinity House...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/28)
'Sail System: from the "Text Book" to the Turret and Tripod Systems of Captain Coles...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/29)
'The Conservatives of our Wood Walls and Shipping, against any Enemies whatever...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/30)
'Speeches by the Right Hon. H.T.L. Corry...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/31)
'Cox's Companion to the Family Medicine Chest'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/32)
'Extracts from the four last chapters of Admiral Jurien de la Gravière's book...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/33)
'What our Transports did in the Crimea'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/34)
'Flotilla, Coast and Harbour Defence. The Gunboat of the Future'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/35)
'On the Amount and Changes of the Polar Magnetism...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/36)
A Few Words of Advice to the Mariners of England and Enterprising Youths...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/37)
'Naval Construction. A fourth letter to the Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/38)
'Naval Ordnance'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/39)
'Reflections on the Navy. Translated from the French'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/40)
'Reflections on Sir John Franklin's Expedition'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/41)
'Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/42)
'Further Correspondence respecting the Affairs of South Africa...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/43)
'Preliminary and Further Reports of the Royal Commissioners...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/44)
'On Screw-Ship Steerage.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/45)
'Speeches of Hon. C R D Hanbury-Tracey M.P. and Thomas Brassey, Esq., M.P...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/46)
'Report on the subject of Wreck and Salvage on the Coast of Kent'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/47)
'The Channel Tunnel'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/48)
'Our Naval Defences and the Necessity and Cost of a Channel Fleet'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/49)
'Speech of Rear-Admiral Sir John Hay, Bart...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/50)
'Text Book to the Turret and Tripod Systems of Captain Cowper P Coles...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/51)
'The Education and Training of Naval Officers'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/52)
'Remarks on the Inefficiency of the Steam Navy for General Service and the Purposes of War'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/53)
'Speech of the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt, MP...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/54)
'Inglefield's new Hydraulic Steering Apparatus...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/55)
'Means of Screw-Ship Steerage, and a description of the Hydrostatic Steering-Gear...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/56)
'South Africa and its Diamonds'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/57)
'The Great Cannon of Muhammad II (AD 1464)...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/58)
'The Story of the Franklin Search illustrative of the Franklin Relics...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/59)
'An Appeal to the British Nation on Behalf of the Mercantile Marine' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/60)
'Remarks on the English Channel Ports of Portsmouth and Plymouth and their Arsenals'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/61)
'Wrecking at the Bahama Islands. Letter from the Hon. William Marvin...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/62)
'Remarks on the Slave Trade and African Squadron'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/63)
'Report on Matters Connected with Shipping at Mauritius'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/64)
'Report upon the Establishments and Vessels of the Indian Marine'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/65)
'Steering and Sounding', Sir Alexander Milne, Kingston, Jamaica'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/66)
'The Naval Expenditure from 1860-1866, and its results'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/67)
'The Newfoundland Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1863'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/68)
Ordnance. Palliser Converted Cast Iron Rifled Nuzzle Loading Guns'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/69)
'State of the Navy. Speech delivered in the House of Commons'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/70)
'Adam Sedgwick. [New Biographical Series No.88]'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/71)
'The Provisional Wesleyan Almanack for 1863.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/72)
'Further Experiments on the More Important Physiological Changes...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/73)
'Descriptive Plan and Explanatory Key to the View of the Sailing of the British Portion...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/74)
'Reasons for an Enquiry into the position of the Executive Officers of the Royal Navy'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/75)
'Report on Nitro-Glycerine. Issued by the Association for the Protection of Commercial...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/76)
'Report on Passive Obstructions for the Defence of Harbours...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/77)
'A Retrospect: embracing a page in naval history'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/78)
'Report on the Maritime Canal connecting the Mediterranean...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/79)
'A Short Treatise on the Deviation of the Mariner's Compass'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/80)
'Alphabetical List of the Members and Committee of the Royal Naval Club...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/81)
'Remarks on the Three Naval Reserves of Seamen...'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/82)
'The Higher Education of Naval Officers...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/83)
'Speeches of Joseph D'A Samuda Esq., MP.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/84)
'Report on Spontaneous Combustion of Coal in Ships'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/85)
'On Structures for Carrying Heavy Ordnance.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/86)
'On Fuel. A lecture delivered to the Operative Classes at Bradford...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/87)
'New Mode of Ship-building: combining Strength and Economy with Facility of Construction'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/88)
'Delta of the Nile. An Investigation of the Effects of the Prevailing Wave Influence...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/89)
'The Combined "End-On" and Broadside Principle versus the "Turret".' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/90)
'Our Great Peril if War overtakes us with our Fleet Deficient in Number, Structure, and Armament'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/91)
'A System of General Night Signals for the use of H.M. Ships and Squadrons...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/92)
'On Compass Adjustment in Iron Ships, and on a new Sounding Apparatus'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/93)
'The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1863.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/94)
'Gibraltar: is it worth holding? and Morocco'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/95)
'On the Course of Study in the Royal Naval College, Greenwich...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/96)
'The Defence of the Channel Tunnel...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/97)
'Speeches of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/98)
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